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2009-2010 SCHEDULE

09/05/09 at Arizona State Tempe, AZ L, 50-3

09/12/09 at Oklahoma Norman, OK L, 64-0

09/19/09 at Weber State * Ogden, UT L, 44-17

09/26/09 vs. Central Washington Pocatello, ID L, 33-22

This program is an absolute mess. They're a terrible team year after year; they're showing no visible signs of improvement; and they're apparently also desperate for money. Quite a combination.

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Idaho State has won an FCS national championship.

Pocatello was once home to the FCS title game.

In basketball, Idaho State once beat a UCLA team that totally dominated the west regioin to make the Elite Eight.

Times do change.

Here's this week's editorial from the Twin Falls paper:

Please make it stop: Send Bengals to Division II

Idaho State University won't do it on its own, so maybe it's time the State Board of Education forcefully suggested that the Bengals aren't a NCAA Division I-caliber athletic program anymore.

The football team, which has lost 45 of its last 59 games, is 0-4 this season and has been outscored 195-42. The men's basketball team has had one winning season in the past 20.

Students - in the form of fees - pick up much of he cost, but the coaches are paid mostly by the taxpayers.

Which means Idahoans are subsidizing arguably the weakest Division I athletic program in the country.

What's the purpose of continuing this? ISU would save money by downsizing (NCAA Division II schools can award up to 36 football scholarships, as opposed to 63 in the Football Championship Subdivision in which the Bengals now compete.) ISU would fit comfortably in either the Colorado-Springs based Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference or the Spokane, Wash.-based Great Northwest Athletic Conference.

ISU has been through six football coaches since the last successful one - Dave Kragthorpe - and four since the school last won a Big Sky Conference men's basketball championship in 1987. None of them have been able to talk enough Division I-quality athletes into spending four years in Pocatello. And the fans have noticed: 6,200 of Holt Arena's 12,000 seats were empty for Idaho State's home opener against Division II Central Washington University. The Bengals lost 33-22.

This is a college sports program quite literally out of its league. It's time for ISU to become big fish in a much smaller pond.

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